Lars, Remind us, please, what state or states you think this couple were married in, and the potential range of dates. If it was WA or OR, there are places I might be able to check. Doris On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Listers! > > I would also like to relaunch this problem of mine. I am just hoping that > newspaper articles can be found in regard to this couple, Nels and Alma > (Dyer) Kins, who had to "escape" from her relatives to marry! > > Thanks again so much for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > On Mar 6, 2015, at 7:30 PM, Doris Waggoner via wrote: > > > >> Lars, > >> > >> Yes, there would have been truck farmers when you took your trip through > >> the Columbia River Gorge. I had a 63 Plymouth Fury too. Mine was red > and > >> white, and I loved that car! I sold it about 1970, because my > then-husband > >> wanted a VW bug. The Fury had never caused me any trouble at all, so I > was > >> reluctant to give it up. > >> > >> Hope someone will find you a marriage license for Nels and Alma, and > that > >> missing census too. That might help pin down the date. > >> > >> Doris > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Dear Barbara, Thelma, Doris, Kathy and other Listers! > >>> > >>> Thank you all very very much for your messages in regard to my > Norwegian > >>> cowboy Nels Kins! Now I have a better "image:" of what he did and > where > >>> they lived, and if I am not entirely mistaken, there were still "truck > >>> farmers" along the Columbia River when I in my "youth" drove past > there in > >>> 1973 with my '63 Plymouth Fury with pushbutton automatic! > >>> > >>> It was interesting also to see from Nels' obituary which Thelma came up > >>> with, that he had lived in Miami, OK for 25 years! That suggests he > had > >>> left Oregon several years before his wife died, and already then he > was a > >>> man with one leg and blind on one eye! No wonder he spent so many > years at > >>> the nursing home in Miami, OK! > >>> > >>> Still I am "hunting" for a marriage date for Nels and Alma. We must > >>> assume they did get married somewhere, but is it possible to find out? > >>> > >>> Thanks again for your great information so far! You are just a > wonderful > >>> team of researchers, and I love you all! > >>> > >>> Very sincerely yours, > >>> > >>> Lars E. Oyane > >>> > >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >>> > >>> On Mar 6, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Thelma Hartman via wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Not much Lars but here is a death notice > >>>> > >>>> Joplin Globe 27 January 1970, page 5 > >>>> > >>>> Nels N. Kins > >>>> Miami, Okla - Nels N. Kins, 89, died at 3 am Monday in Miami Baptist > >>>> Hospital where he had been a patient since last Wednesday. Mr Kins was > >>> born > >>>> August 17 1880 in Wisconsin and had been a resident of Miami the last > 25 > >>>> years. He had been a patient in a Miami nursing home 17 years. He was > a > >>>> member of the Lutheran Church. There are no immidiate survivors. > Services > >>>> will be announced by Cooper Funeral Home of Miami. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Nels N. KINS > >>>> born Aug. 17, 1880 in Buffalo Co., WI > >>>> died Jan. 26, 1970 at Miami, Ottawa Co., OK > > Norwaylist Archiveshttp:// > archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >